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Lamentations 1:3

in Lamentations 1

Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

KJV

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

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This verse in Lamentations 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Because of ... - i. e. the people, not of Jerusalem only, but of the whole land, “is gone into exile to escape from the affliction and laborious servitude,” to which they are subject in their own land. Persecutors ... between the straits - Rather, “pursuers ... in the midst of her straits.” The Jews flee like deer to escape from the invading Chaldaeans, but are driven by them into places from where there is no escape.

This site's exposition

How doth the city sit solitary

on Lamentations 1:1-3

The book opens as an alphabet acrostic, one verse to each of the twenty-two Hebrew letters, a form disciplined enough to hold grief without letting it spill past its banks. The city that once sat as a queen among the nations now sits solitary, called a widow though her husband the Lord has not divorced her, and the exile named plainly, Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction and great servitude. The bench reads the language of state and status, princess, tributary, as deliberate: the poem names exactly what has been lost before it names why.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

(Jer 52:27). because of great servitude--that is, in a state "of great servitude," endured from the Chaldeans. "Because" is made by VATABLUS indicative of the cause of her captivity; namely, her having "afflicted" and unjustly brought into "servitude" the manumitted bond-servants (Jer 34:8-22).

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • גָּֽלְתָ֨הshe has gone into exile

    galtahH1540 →186 times

  • יְהוּדָ֤הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • מֵעֹ֙נִי֙from affliction

    meoniH6040 →36 times

  • וּמֵרֹ֣בand from an abundance of

    umeroH7230 →149 times

  • עֲבֹדָ֔הservitude

    ʾavodahH5656 →

  • הִ֚יאher

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • יָשְׁבָ֣הshe dwells

    yashevahH3427 →1079 times

  • בַגּוֹיִ֔םamong the nations

    vagoyimH1471 →561 times

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • מָצְאָ֖הshe has found

    matzeahH4672 →455 times

  • מָנ֑וֹחַa resting place

    manoachH4494 →

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • רֹדְפֶ֥יהָpursuers her

    rodefeihaH7291 →143 times

  • הִשִּׂיג֖וּהָthey have overtaken her

    hisiguhaH5381 →

  • בֵּ֥יןbetween

    beinH996 →

  • הַמְּצָרִֽים׃ סthe narrow places

    hametzarimH4712 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Deuteronomy 28:64–67Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.3 worksLamentations 2:9Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.3 worksPsalms 129:1Many a time they have persecuted me from my youth— let Israel now declare—3 worksJeremiah 39:9Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.2 worksLeviticus 26:36–39As for those of you who survive, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies, so that even the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to flight. And they will flee as one flees the sword, and fall when no one pursues them.2 worksJeremiah 52:15Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile some of the poorest people and those who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the craftsmen.2 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
2 Chronicles 36:20–21Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.2 worksJeremiah 52:27–30There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.2 works2 Kings 25:11Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.2 worksLamentations 4:18–19They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!2 worksEzekiel 5:12A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them.2 works2 Kings 24:14–15He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.2 worksJeremiah 24:9I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.2 worksAmos 9:1–4I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape.2 works2 Kings 25:21There at Riblah in the land of Hamath, the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death. So Judah was taken into exile, away from its own land.2 worksJeremiah 52:8but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was separated from him.2 worksJeremiah 16:16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.2 worksJeremiah 13:19The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Lamentations 2:9

    Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 7:26

      Disaster upon disaster will come, and rumor after rumor. Then they will seek a vision from a prophet, but instruction from the priests will perish, as will counsel from the elders.

    • Hosea 3:4

      For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.

    • Psalms 74:9

      There are no signs for us to see. There is no longer any prophet. And none of us knows how long this will last.

    • Nehemiah 1:3

      And they told me, “The remnant who survived the exile are there in the province, in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

    • Micah 3:6–7

      Therefore night will come over you without visions, and darkness without divination. The sun will set on these prophets, and the daylight will turn black over them.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 39:9

    Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 40:1

      This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem…

    • Genesis 37:36

      Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.

    • 2 Kings 25:20

      Nebuzaradan captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

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About Lamentations

People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Lamentations: the study guide →Read Lamentations 1 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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